Loaf Bread

Ingredients

• Three quarts of flour (for four loaves)
• One teaspoonful salt
• One tablespoonful sugar
• One tablespoonful of lard dissolved in hot water
• Three-fourths cupful of milk
• Small yeast cake
• Tablespoonful of tepid water.

Directions

1. Dissolve three quarts of flour (for four loaves), one teaspoonful salt, one tablespoonful sugar and one tablespoonful of lard in hot water.
2. Soak three-fourths cupful of milk and small yeast cake for half hour in tablespoonful of tepid water.
3. Stir all together with knife until knife stands up in the sponge.
4. Let rise over night.
5. Knead out and put in pans not quite half full, that it may rise to the edge in about an hour.
6. Bake in oven of moderate heat about an hour and a half.

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days

Prepared by Morgan Payne

Louisiana Anthology

November 10, 2014